Advertising checker-board



H. P. EYSENBAGH. Advertising Checker-Board.

0 228,330. Patented June 1,1880.

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HENRY P. EYSENBAOH, OF DELPHOS, OHIO.

ADVERTISING CHECKER-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,330, dated June 1, 1880.

Application filed April 3,1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY P. EYSENBAOH, of Delphos, in the county of Allen and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Advertising Chess and Checker Boards, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing, in which the figure represents a plan of my checker-board.

The object of my invention is to provide an advertising chess or checker board, as will hereinafter be more fully set forth.

In the drawing, the squares marked by the letter A represent one color of the blocks, and B the other color.

It is designed to have the background of the board simply one plain color, preferably white or some light color. The squares A, used either as the playing-blocks or as the vacant spaces, are filled with advertisements printed in one color, and the other blocks, B, can remain either blank or have advertisements printed thereon in another color.

The advertisements in one color are printed at right angles to those in the other color, or disposed in any. such manner as to make a contrast in the blocks adjoining each other.

It will be noticed in the drawing that the advertisements at the bottom of the engraving marked A B read in the opposite direction to those at the head of the board. The side advertisements are disposed in the same manner, so that the parties playing on opposite sides will always see the blocks on the side farthest from them; or, if desired, the advertisements can be so displayed as to be nearest the players side.

By such arrangement the advertisements attract the attention not only of the players, but of the bystanders on either side.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A checker or chess board having the background in one plain light color and the alternate playing blocks or squares filled with advertisements printed in two different colors, so that, while displaying the advertisements, the adjoining blocks will form a contrast for aiding the players, substantially as described.

HENRY P. EYSENBAOH.

Witnesses J. S. ZERBE, JOHN T. WILsoN. 

